Selected Poems of Langston Hughes: A Classic Collection of Poems by a Master of American Verse PDF
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VINTAGE CLASSICS EDITION, SEPTEMBER 1990 Copyright © 1959 by Langston Hughes Copyright renewed 1987 by George Houston Bass, Surviving Executor of the Estate of Langston Hughes, Deceased All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1959. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hughes, Langston, 1902–1967. [Poems. Selections] Selected poems of Langston Hughes p. cm. —(Vintage classics) eISBN: 978-0-307-94940-0 I. Title II. Series. PS3515.U274A6 1990 90-50179 811’.52—dc20 Display typography by Stephanie Bart-Horvath v3.1 To my cousin, Flora This book contains a selection of the poems of Langston Hughes chosen by himself from his earlier volumes: THE WEARY BLUES FINE CLOTHES TO THE JEW SHAKESPEARE IN HARLEM FIELDS OF WONDER ONE-WAY TICKET MONTAGE OF A DREAM DEFERRED and from the privately printed limited edition DEAR LOVELY DEATH together with a number of new poems published here for the first time in book form, some never before anywhere. CONTENTS Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication AFRO-AMERICAN FRAGMENTS Afro-American Fragment The Negro Speaks of Rivers Sun Song Aunt Sue’s Stories Danse Africaine Negro American Heartbreak October 16 As I Grew Older My People Dream Variations FEET OF JESUS Feet o’ Jesus Prayer Shout Fire Sunday Morning Prophecy Sinner Litany Angels Wings Judgment Day Prayer Meeting Spirituals Tambourines SHADOW OF THE BLUES The Weary Blues Hope Late Last Night Bad Morning Sylvester’s Dying Bed Wake Could Be Bad Luck Card Reverie on the Harlem River Morning After Early Evening Quarrel Evil As Befits a Man SEA AND LAND Havana Dreams Catch Water-Front Streets Long Trip Seascape Moonlight Night: Carmel Heaven In Time of Silver Rain Joy Winter Moon Snail March Moon Harlem Night Song To Artina Fulfilment Gypsy Melodies Mexican Market Woman A Black Pierrot Ardella When Sue Wears Red Love Beale Street Port Town Natcha Young Sailor Sea Calm Dream Dust No Regrets Troubled Woman Island DISTANCE NOWHERE Border Line Garden Genius Child Strange Hurt Suicide’s Note End Drum Personal Juliet Desire Vagabonds One Desert A House in Taos Demand Dream Night: Four Songs Luck Old Walt Kid in the Park Song for Billie Holiday Fantasy in Purple AFTER HOURS Midnight Raffle What? Gone Boy 50–50 Maybe Lover’s Return Miss Blues’es Child Trumpet Player Monroe’s Blues Stony Lonesome Black Maria LIFE IS FINE Life Is Fine Still Here Ballad of the Gypsy Me and the Mule Kid Sleepy Little Lyric Fired Midnight Dancer Blue Monday Ennui Mama and Daughter Delinquent S-sss-ss-sh! Homecoming Final Curve Little Green Tree Crossing Widow Woman LAMENT OVER LOVE Misery Ballad of the Fortune Teller Cora Down and Out Young Gal’s Blues Ballad of the Girl Whose Name Is Mud Hard Daddy Midwinter Blues Little Old Letter Lament over Love MAGNOLIA FLOWERS Daybreak in Alabama Cross Magnolia Flowers Mulatto Southern Mammy Sings Ku Klux West Texas Share-Croppers Ruby Brown Roland Hayes Beaten Uncle Tom Porter Blue Bayou Silhouette Song for a Dark Girl The South Bound No’th Blues NAME IN UPHILL LETTERS One-Way Ticket Migrant
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